Narrative Strategies/Novel

Catalog description

This course will study various works in the narrative mode. The course will focus on a range of novels selected from both or either the English and American tradition, with the specific focus dependent upon the professor's area of expertise. The course will exam works demonstrating various narrative styles and techniques; will work to evolve an understanding of what choices and forces inform these various styles and techniques; and will explore the both the potential and the limits endemic to writing in the narrative mode.